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The Palm Beach Post from West Palm Beach, Florida • Page 110

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MONDAY, APRIL 4, 1994 A The Palm Beach Post SECTION PLAY BALL Read all about it diamonds are forever PAGE 4D Accent Inside the comic mind of Oh, beans! What does Bill Cosby really like to eat? Hey, hey, hey! The apron emblazoned with The Cosby Show caught his attention, and the Temple University baseball cap brought him closer. But it was Greg Scirrotto's food that won over Bill Cosby last Wednesday at the Kravis Center. Scirrotto's Continental Catering set up backstage food for Cos' two shows. As a favor to his brother Ron, who collects memorabilia and runs a A 71 TVT clUlLiL sports souvenir shop, Oreg wore the apron and hat, hop- ing 10 cop some auiograpns. Cosby obliged, also signing two aiDums, a Daseoaii ana a coffee mug.

But Cosby had something up his sleeve. "He's particular about what he wants," Greg said. "Backstage he kept requesting Cuban food. Finally, he asked us to fix him dinner after the show. So we packed up and moved to the Ocean Grand where we set up in Thom Smith the parking lot and proceeded to cook his Cuban food." Black and red beans, rice, cuban steak, and, as Cosby said, "them bananas" plantains.

"It was a trip," Scirrotto said. "He was super to work with." Winner of 'New Rolls' contest a sport It was a big Friday for Ann Caslano, who works at Florida Health Choice in Delray Beach. Her name was drawn from hundreds of entries in WRMF-FM 97.9's "New Rolls" contest. A limousine carrying "Bob followed by a new Rolls-Royce Corniche, pulled up at her office for the presentation: first a Rolls-Royce key chain, then a Rolls-Royce T-shirt, then a Rolls-Royce pen. Finally, morning show producer Steve Becker opened the trunk of the Corniche and presented Ann her "new rolls" fresh from Banbury Cross Bakery in By HAP ERSTEIN Palm Beach Post Staff Writer Alan King has come to town to visit some old friends his audience.

Performing stand-up comedy is easy for the 66-year-old, Brooklyn-born raconteur, because as he explains, "I am entertaining people that I have entertained before. These are all my friends now." Friends to whom he is sincerely indebted. "As I said the other night, I look at audiences and I always have this weird feeling that all of you chipped in and made me a rich man. Everyone in my family thanks you." King, the author-film producer-actor-philanthropist-entrepreneur-comedian, emphasizes that last part of his hyphenated existence at the Jupiter Theatre this week, beginning Tuesday night through Sunday. As to what he will be talking about onstage, King says with a casual air, "I do it biographical.

I start with the Lower East Side and the Catskill Mountains and end up with my arthritis. I take you on a trip through my life." For Irwin Alan Kniberg, it is the journey of a high school dropout who became a millionaire by talking about the pet peeves that confound him daily. Though King seems to shape these annoyances into comic monologues effortlessly, he is a serious student of the craft of comedy. In fact, he spent the past two years interviewing other comedians, analyzing the mechanics of their humor in an HBO Comedy Central series, Inside the Comic Mind. About the only thing he did not do on the series is electronically split the screen and interview himself.

So we asked King to examine his own approach to comedy. He responded by subdividing his career into phases. Phase one, he says, "as a kid in the Depression, I was doing all sorts of crazy things to get attention in amateur shows." He adopted the brash style of the old Catskill Mountains comics, far different from the low-key, but peeved suburbanite persona he later settled into. Forcing himself into the manic mold, King feels "gave you a sense of confidence and a sense of the outrageous. It made me, as a youngster, in a sense fearless." Seeing his comic style today, you would never guess Please see KING5D v.

4 tl Newhart Hobe Sound. If you didn't catch on, Friday was April 1, but Casiano was no fool. She enjoyed every minute of it. "We were all biting our nails," said amazed program director Russ Morley, who with morning show hosts Kevin Kitchens and Jennifer Ross cowered at the studio. "But we got somebody with a great sense of humor.

I can't believe nobody picked up on it. Even our sales manager fell for it." Newhart, incidentally, was no joke he's a funeral director in Lantana. Swamp themed radio in the air In January, we said someone wanted to buy a small radio station to create a country music rival for WIRK-FM 107.9. Well, the station is WOKC in Okeechobee. On the AM side at 1570, it broadcasts an all-Spanish format.

At 103.1 FM, it's carried country music for 33 years. The FM side is about to move to Indiantown and broadcast from a higher tower near Interstate in Hobe Sound. The prospective buyer is Amaturo, which owns rockin' 'n' rollin' Gater-FM 98.7, but the company is still waiting for the Federal Communications Commission to approve the deal. We hear that when the deal goes through, the new owners will extend their swamp theme and call the new FM "The Frog." Ribbit. Bartenders' Ball setting up The social season must be over because the Eighth Annual Bartenders' Ball will be held next Monday at the Palm Beach Gardens Marriott.

Fifty restaurants and food purveyors are providing food and drink for the traditional season closer, which salutes workers in the hospitality industry and raises money for charity. Proceeds go to the Walter D. Kelly Treatment Center for adolescents Comedian Alan King will perform at the Jupiter Theatre this week. 1 -i. West Palm Beach.

Once again the Facade nightclub band from Miami will perform. The public is invited. At $60 in advance, tickets are a JtJk tl bargain. Call 627-3366. 'Calvin Creator On Break That wild duo of Calvin and Hobbes would be taxing everyday companions for anyone, right? Even for their creator, Bill Watterson.

Starting today, Watterson begins a nine-month hiatus. The Post will continue to run Calvin and Hobbes, but the strips will be ones that first appeared in 1989 and 1990. Watterson will return from his sabbatical in January. Sue Roush, associate editor for Universal Press Syndicate, explained Watterson's time off: "Bill puts an incredible amount of energy, both emotional and artistic, into creating Calvin and Hobbes. He doesn't take regular, annual vacations like most people He'll use the time to pursue his water-coloring." Andrea Contant uses the slide as she teaches an aerobics class at Michael's Body Scenes in Boca Raton.

SCOn WISEMAN Stair Photographer If the shoe fits Curiously apropos: Palm Beach's ace divorce lawyer, John 2 ft. Christiansen Christiansen, named his small ranch west of Jupiter "The Bloody Machete." LETlTSODE Latest aerobics trend swings you side to side TV builds shows around real-life teenage girls By PHIL KLOER Palm Beach Post-Cox News Service Historically The Patty Duke Show notwithstanding teenage girls have usually been on the fringes of TV, or just another flavor in the mix. Girlfriends of Doogie Howser or Kevin Arnold, supporting sisters-to-the-stars like Justine Bateman on Family Ties or Susan Dey on The Partridge Family. Today, though, the teenage TV heroine's name is legion and Angela, Tia, Tamera, Blossom, Clarissa, Christy, and Angela again. Never before have there been so many television series built around teenage girls, shows that take their point of view rather than their parents' or brothers' or boyfriends'.

Four new midseason series My So-Called Life, Sister, Sister, Someone Like Me and Christy join Blossom, Phenom and Clarissa Explains It All to total Please see TEENAGE4D with step exercise, weight training and low-impact aerobics, they say the slide adds a new dimension to the old exercise routine. "It's a basic, intense workout without get- ting too fancy," said Andrea Contant, an in- structor at Michael's. "If you get too creative, you get away from the conditioning. A lot of people get tense because they stumble over -their feet a bit, but eventually they get the hano' of it" The slide works the leg muscles, especially' the quadriceps and thighs. It also requires a tight stomach to maintain balance, and strong feet to propel exercisers across the slideboard and stop them at the bumpers.

Most health clubs use Reebok's version; $99.99, booties (to help you slide) and video included. By LOIS K. SOLOMON Palm Beach Post Staff Writer Lunge, 2-3-4. Lunge, 2-3-4. Karen Blair is trying to master the latest aerobics trend, the slide.

But it's not as easy as it looks. Knee up, 2-3-4, knee up, 2-3-4. Arms up, 2-3-4, arms down, 2-3-4. It's like skiing, but instead you swing to the side. A 6-foot slippery surface forces leg muscles to tighten as your feet meet the bumper pads on each end.

"I'm using muscles I didn't know I had," said Blair, 42, exercising at Michael's Body Scenes in Boca Raton. Always looking for a new contraption to stimulate their easily bored clientele, aerobics enthusiasts have embraced the slide. Combined Could This Be The New Man In Your Life? We're going to add some new comics to our Sunday lineup, and we want your opinion. Look for our survey in next Sunday's Accent, and vote for your favorite..

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